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If we do not choose the best to control our national assets, we dare not complain when we get the worst.
I've long detected a certain froideur in these pages for the industry that dare not speak its name.
They dare not do a disco because they fear an outbreak of drug-taking and break-dancing or both!
We dare not allow it to work here, but we cannot discount the possibility, either.
God is so big and so pure that mortal sinners dare not to approach Him upon pain of death.
Beneath the surface of small-town serenity lies a dark domain where innocents dare not tread and unpredictability is the norm.
Speculation abounds, of the sort we dare not put down on paper lest we be accused of inciting unrest.
And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as cantankerous curmudgeons.
Mainstream scientists dare not disagree with the monolithic block that is Darwinian orthodoxy.
As it is, voles dare not approach the potting shed, though they make free with the rest of the garden.
He is a man on the edge of a mental abyss, a soul tortured by events in his past he dare not confront when sober.
Perhaps they dare not mention that in case a lot of users return their software under the copyright act.
And if you have an insatiable sweet tooth, you dare not leave without sampling Mrs. Chef's famous cheesecake.
Another kiss of life is required to take them into a new era and in this relay race, the sporting world dare not drop the baton.
I suspect that they dare not make the threat plainly because they know they would be laughed out of court.
They dare not assert directly that the same laborers that have been discharged find situations in new branches of labor.
Many people are afraid, they are apprehensive, they dare not openly express their views.
We are upland farmers, but landmines have been planted around our fields so we dare not cultivate our crops.
Moreover, even where there still are schools, parents dare not send their children to them owing to the lack of security.
The novel's people, communally representative of its theme and the choric agents of its plot, dare not get out of order.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I dare not attempt to delineate the paroxysm of emotion which it excited in every heart.
He dare not drowse, for he cannot tell at what moment the quarry may appear.
Others say that she has eczema and dare not show her face, while others say she is mad.
However I might be disposed to trust his probity, I dare not trust his prejudices.
I would like to baa at him again, but I dare not with all these foreign folk.
The heir-at-law was well inclined to it, but melancholy, so that the people dare not trust to a settlement from him.
It had rained all day, except when it sleeted, and of course we were wet through, yet we dare not light a fire.
They, too, feed the northern health stations in icebound ports where submersibles dare not rise.
Permit me on my knees to intreat from you that favor I dare not request from him!
There was something in the hearts of his people with which he dare not tamper.
So much so that if she had a husband, he dare not beat her lest she run and tattle to them.
In fiction coincidence has its metes and bounds beyond which it dare not step.
He dare not touch a drop because he has brights disease in the last stages.
These are broad questions that a man of liberal mind dare not ventilate.
I dare not set foot on the staircase here, for if I do so I am stared at, and pointed at, and spoken about in the most horrible manner.
You, the boldest Intendant ever sent to New France, and say you dare not!
Keep your faces therefore towards the Trojans, but give ground backwards, for we dare not fight with gods.
The freest people on the civilized earth are the only people on the civilized earth who dare not face that question.
I dare not face it, any more than I would the blast of the simoom.
All evils are remediable but one, that one which I dare not name.
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